Welcome the Christ
On the cusp on another Christmas, we pray that the peace of Christ be known in our hearts and in our world. This past Sunday we ended our worship with a congregational selfie, a.k.a., taking a family picture. It makes for a nice Christmas greeting card, but was also a…
Sing for life
This past Sunday was one of the high-holy days of the year at CMC – Music Sunday of the Advent/Christmas season. Children began the service with a sampling of music they had shared the night before for the Christmas play, the choir sang the songs they carefully rehearsed this…
Three Anabaptist flavored gift ideas
OK, so the Christmas season is about a whole lot more than getting and receiving gifts, but most of us likely participate in gift exchanges to one degree or another. Keeping it in the category of old-school print media, with a progressive Anabaptist flavor, below are three items our…
Advent Devotionals
Below is the text of an Advent devotional I wrote for The Mennonite website blog. Each day during Advent, The Mennonite will be posting a reflection written by different members from across the MCUSA family. The reflection below was written for day two of Advent, but all the other daily…
Gratitude as resistance
There was a stretch of years in my 20’s when I struggled with whether or not one could be authentically grateful in a world with so much injustice. The more aware I became, the more tainted were the ‘blessings’ I enjoyed. Gratitude, it seemed, involved temporarily closing one’s eyes…
